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[This is my post moved from Programs, Apps and Websites] Hi, I started a Full Scan on Windows Defender and after 5 minutes it stops at about 2801452 items scanned. My laptop gets stuck and I can't do anything (even opening the Start Menu with Windows Key is a pain). Can someone help me ? Btw it does the same for Custom Scan... Thx P.S.: I won't be able to provide screenshots because everything is blocked, obviously.

I'm unable to re-enable Windows Defender given the error of "Threat service has stopped restart it now." (and when i attempt to restart, it stalls and then gives error prompt) and sometimes "Page not available, Your IT Administrator has limited access to some areas of this app..." There is no other Windows devices on my network only mobile devices, my router/dns does not seem to be tampered with, Windows is fully updated, drivers updated, newest bios. I encountered this problem 3 days ago and since then i have; Clean installed windows twice, Cleared CMOS, regedit DisableAntiSpyware set to 0, Installed Malwarebytes after this issue and performed a full scan(0 results), Glanced through task manager, used my extremely limited knowledge in Wireshark and failed to find anything.

Hello, Some years ago we had a teacher in college that explained to us that most machines connected to the internet after many years of use by "amateurs" will get infected vy a virus in some way or another. At the time, this seemed reasonable so I've been thinking this way and everything seems fine. When I updated to windows 10 I started using just windows defender as antivirus protection since that is what I was told I should do. My question is: Am I wrong? I feel like most people I know think as I do... If this is naive or outdated I'd like to know and I can't find much information about it. And even when I do, it's very technical and confusing to explain to others to verify it.... I'm currently using Windows 10 with everything up to date. I checked on windows defender and I ran the most in depth scan available in the app. It says No threats. Is this reliable or my pc might be infected with all kinds of stuff that WD just can't detect? Any information will be appreciated but keep in mind that I work in video and my background knowledge in this topic is very poor... Thanks!

Hello! So, I wanted to ask if Windows Defender is good enough these days? How does it compare with other free antivirus softwares? Thanks in advance!

Hello to all the cpmmunity. Greetings from Greece. Hope you're all good. My message is about a question for the Windows defender and Windows keys from eBay. I bought a Windows 10 Pro key from eBay and it's all good. But the last month I noticed that I don't have the windows Defender active. I mean there is no icon in the icons panel and when I open "Windows Security" I see a blank page. Also I'm using "RevoUninstaller" to clean some of the Windows background apps cause I really don't need them and they EAT my PC with no reason. Do I really need the Windows Defender? Is it a problem cause I bought the key from E bay? Did I do anything while using RevoUninstaller? Anyway Thank you very much guys. Linus I believe you can be more cringe than this....don't disappoint us (just kidding). All the love from Greece.

I wanted to open my windows defender and perform a full scan but its blank. Please help.

After the latest update, my windows defender has started to behave oddly. it is blocking a lot of my software to access files in the hard drive, along with all the games in my steam library. I have not changed anything after the update which would have triggered this. please help!

Everytime I try to open some software and install anything, the Virus and threat protection system starts acting weird and blocks me. I can't install rockstar launcher because of this issue. This started from the day I suddenly found Norton Security app in my list of programmes. I uninstalled it immediately because I had never installed it. And this uninstallation process was really weird too. After uninstalled, it immediately restarted PC and upon restarting, it shows a really weird looking screen. Will post here in comments. And after restart, I went into windows defender settings and improved the settings and might have accidentally added some folders into the protected list to prevent editing by someone else. It has been now 2-4 weeks since then and now I have many error popping up saying that found and all. It's blocking my RGB fusion software. I don't care about it, then it's blocking Adobe Premiere pro, but still opens it. Now I'm trying to install rockstar launcher, completely blocking it. I can't find this settings, please guide me.

I have been trying to look up how to fix this and i haven't had any luck. Any solutions?

I'm the admin. followed this guide (results = nothing) https://www.minitool.com/backup-tips/your-virus-and-threat-protection-is-managed-by-your-organization.html checked 2 and 3 no positive result

Well that was almost a close call? Lol Link to article: https://www-techradar-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.techradar.com/amp/news/windows-10-is-warning-users-not-to-install-ccleaner?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From %1%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.techradar.com%2Fnews%2Fwindows-10-is-warning-users-not-to-install-ccleaner

Honestly though, how? Such a simple task that Windows just basically ruined in another crap update. Every site I've gone to including Microsoft says go to the history tab but ever since one of these new updates, they completely redone Windows Defender and the history tab is gone. I don't even know what version I'm on. Please help.

So I just built a new Pc, I went and booted up Microsoft edge and I got a pop up saying I had a virus, I was confused as to all I’ve done is browsed and played games on steam, watched YouTube and went on amazon. I immediately went to windows defender and it says there is nothing wrong. This is my first Pc as I used to be a Mac user and I’m not sure what to do or what to believe in this situation. What should I do?

When I open the windows defender program this is what I get : It's only giving me this, in fact I can't even enable it, right now it's turned off. I think this is also messing with Windows update, because I can't update anymore.

So I was wondering what everyone's opinions are on the top antivirus this year? I know Windows Defender is pretty good on Windows 10 (I'm running Windows 8.1 atm) although the UI sucks imo, Kaspersky is supposed to be good but they've been under fire for having shady monitoring practices (whether these are true or not I'm not sure) and all google searches state that Bit Defender is the top one atm, but I found that it caused my games to crash more often than not. I've been looking at AVG, the UI looks clean and it's been around for a long time. But anyway, what do you guys use and which ones would you recommend?

I've been honing my windows defender triggers in the task scheduler and I noticed something that could be a problem. If you've set it to turn on at idle and turn off when you start using the computer again, that makes you susceptible to bugs that mine with your system without your permission. Like that bug that you'll get if you're foolish enough to use "The Pirate Bay". Since your CPU won't clock down and will effectively never idle if you have that bug, how is Windows Defender supposed to nuke it if it's set to not turn on unless the PC is at idle? So yea, if you have custom settings for Windows Defender in your task scheduler, you need to go and check to make sure that's not turned on. Start - type task scheduler - open it - expand the task scheduler library folder in the left menu - go to Microsoft - Windows - Windows Defender - double click on 1 of the 4 items in there - go to the conditions tab - and ensure that the top box is not checked - repeat the process for the rest of the 3 items in there.

Emagherd, mAH Pryvasey is en dengaar! Scarewares, Nobody likes em , once you get to know how the cycle works, but to those who are just getting in to the whole Digital thing as a new thing , like old non-tech savvy folks & younger eager minded guys & gals who want to keep their pc safe by grabbing everything that offers them safety for free without cutting a hole through their pocket. Most of the folks tend to steer clear of premium apps & software to begin with as most are based on yearly subscription & have payment & uneasy activation hurdles to go through to get a pure offered service, Many software providing sites that offer free software that does so under the guise of having the best ratings & offers sorta click baity software's that later turn into a nightmare for users. Now Microsoft Windows Defender Research team announced that starting March Windows Defender will start removing software that has “coercive messages” or “misleading content to pressure you into paying for additional services or performing superfluous actions.” they grew up so fast , :') , seems just yesterday it was letting in coin miners & trojans in like old pals From February 2016 microsoft required cleaner and optimizer programs that purport to clean up systems and optimize performance to provide customers with detailed information about what purportedly needs to be fixed. This requirement aims to protect customers from programs that present aggregate “error” results with no specific details, without providing customers with the ability to assess and validate the so-called errors. Additional criteria that will trigger the removal include notices that the paid offer will expire in a limited time, or that no other errors (such as an antivirus program) will clean up the problems.In short, vendors that use scare tactics to get you to install, pay for, and use their system utilities will now have to be very careful about how they advertise, least Microsoft deem their products unwanted software and flag the applications for removal.In particular, Microsoft says, the rules will be aimed at killing off the dubious claims made by filesystem and Registry "cleaner" apps that try to charge users for performing routine or unnecessary tasks. For software developer who are worried about this issue & want to validate the detection of their programs can visit the Windows Defender Security Intelligence portal & upload their file for review. it's kinda like those phony microsoft team phone calls to your doorstep, applications that offer to scan your Windows PC for free, and then conveniently claim your computer is under attack by viruses, or has serious defects, and that the only way to save your files is to fork out fifty bucks for a magic cleanup tool. Rarely legit companies use scaretactics as marketing tool, but it has happened, Back in 2010 users of the free ZoneAlarm firewall version were presented with a pop-up "Global Virus Alert" notification about the trojan "ZeuS.Zbot.aoaq." The scary pop-up declares that your PC may be in danger! The high risk threat states that "ZeuS.Zbot.aoaq is a new Trojan virus had been found that steals banking passwords and financial account data. Basic protection to your computer is provided by Your ZoneAlarm Free Firewall, but this new threat requires additional security." The users were then redirected to their site to buy link for their premium software. Blog post was made by Barak Shein from Windows Defender Security Research team , So what are your thoughts on this? pretty bold move if you ask me but it could hinder legit software marketing that offer true protection which Microsoft might play a bias onto & ignore it because of that, but it's a welcoming sight to see the basic offered protection from within can carryout this important task to those who don't rely on a third party application to do so. please post Your thoughts & comments down below. Sources : https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/01/30/protecting-customers-from-being-intimidated-into-making-an-unnecessary-purchase/ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3252337/windows/microsofts-windows-defender-antimalware-targets-scareware-apps.html https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/2/16963720/microsoft-windows-10-windows-defender-antivirus-scareware-cleaner-removal https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/31/microsoft_windows_defender_scareware/ Complimentary meme: @GoodBytes #Microsoft

windows defender Protection History is crashing every time i want to see my protection history and to allow some devices , how can i resolve that ????

So I have a dell inspirion 15 7000 which is an i5, and it's been running rather slow lately. I don't think I have a virus, I just think that Windows defender is working overtime. Looking into my task manager I noticed that google chrome and "antimalware service executable" which when extended shows windows defender, are using pretty much all of my disk usage. My ram is at about half, which I also don't think should be happening either, but I think the disk usage is what is slowing it down. Any idea how I can fix this?

So the only anti-virus type thing that i have is Windows Defender, and I don't know if it's really any good. I keep it updated, it actually updated not even 30 minutes ago from the time of this post.

By: GoodBytes for example purposes of a more ideal reporting of news: Microsoft has announced that they are addressing unwanted actions and practices taken by Adware as a goal to give customer control and choice. Back in in April 2014, Microsoft announced that it will block some adware that intrudes on users. However, Adware has evolved over time, and now using even more intrusive ways. These new ways are man-in-the-middle attacks, injection by proxy, changing DNS settings, network layer manipulation and other methods. All of these techniques used by Adware has a goal to intercept communications between between the website and the user viewing it, to inject its own ads. This also opens doors for attackers to compromise people systems. Microsoft says in its blog: Beginning March 31, 2016, Microsoft will enforce new policies that will allow and make Windows PC safer and control to users, by removing them in various ways, such as Windows Update and Windows Defender. The new policy states that: Anything else will be on Microsoft target for removal. Source: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2015/12/21/keeping-browsing-experience-in-users-hands/ By: zMeul Hint at Lenovo's SuperFish But what exactly Microsoft will do to these developers / OEMs, hint Lenovo, will they revoke the certification(s)?! The funny thing is that Edge doesn't have extensions so... Microsoft, should we understand that Edge will get extensions prior to March 2016? Complementary reading - How Microsoft antimalware products identify malware: unwanted software and malicious software (^ note: for some reason, I cannot open the link while being signed in with MS account)

Hi , last monday i got a flash drive back from a coworker, he was supposed to look at some .stl files i gave him on the drive. when i plugged it back to access it, File explorer instantly became glitchy... long to load and wasn'T able to see anything on the drive. looked at task manager and 100% cpu usage (G3258@4.3GHz) however nvidia backend was massively contributing at like 60%average Windows (10) notified me that the securyty might have been at risk so i enabled windows defender.. did a scan and it found this . after a quick google, i found out these might be used by people with non genuine windows versions activated.. but i have a genuine windows licence so WTF is it doing there . Windows Defender on the other hand cant seem to be able to get rid of it... i ran a complete scan every single days of this week and ordered defender to remove the files. even after it says it have successfully removed the files, when i rescan the pc it still find the same files exactly at the same place ... so should i use some AV with a time trial to get rid of the nasties and then back up my games on the second hard drive to finally reinstall Win10?

Hi! So the title says it all what's the best antivirus program? I'm currently using ad-aware but I was thinking about other possibilities. Free antivirus*